Korea Forest Service: "Korea, China, and Japan Join Forces for Cooperation in the Forestry Sector"

The Korea Forest Service announced on the 16th that it participated in the "6th Korea-China-Japan Forest Sector Director-General Meeting" held in Japan to share forest policies and discuss mutual cooperation tasks.

The meeting has been held annually since 2014, following the "Joint Declaration on Cooperation for Sustainable Forest Management, Desertification Prevention, and Wildlife Conservation" adopted at the trilateral summit in 2012.

However, after holding the "5th Meeting" at the National Forest Healing Center in Yeongju, Gyeongbuk, South Korea in 2018, the meetings were suspended for a while due to the COVID-19 pandemic and resumed this year after five years.

This year's meeting was attended by senior officials and working-level staff from the forest sectors of each country, as well as deputy secretaries from the cooperation secretariat, providing an opportunity to introduce each country's forest status and long-term strategies, and to share policies on forest disaster response, timber use and trade, and forest welfare.

Additionally, the three countries agreed at this meeting to continue specific and sustained communication and cooperation by sector until the "7th Meeting" to be held in China next year.

Park Eun-sik, Director of International Forest Cooperation who attended the meeting, said, "As issues such as the climate crisis, desertification, and biodiversity become more serious, the importance of international forest cooperation also increases," adding, "We will strengthen cooperation among the three countries through this meeting and further expand the scope of international cooperation to enrich the world's forests."

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